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“I had a really good reason for working Step Nine and making amends to my family and friends. I didn’t want a parade of people at my funeral singing, ‘Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!’”

“AA is spiritual, is the eye of the hurricane, is my refuge and my comfort.”

“My Higher Power works incognito, defying definition and requiring faith.”

“I felt myself move with a new power, courage, and faith that, by the grace of God, I have acquired as a result of working the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

“The individual must sometimes place the welfare of his fellows ahead of his own uncontrolled desires. Were the individual to yield nothing to the common welfare there could be no society at all – only self-will run riot; anarchy in the worst sense of the word.”

“I am feeling much better now, and I thank God for AA and my good friends. I have learned how to accept their help.”

“When I’m willing to pay the price for top-shelf sobriety, ‘action’ is still the magic word.”

“We who live in the haven of AA cling together with an intensity of purpose which the outside world seldom comprehends. The anarchy of the individual melts away. Self-love subsides and democracy becomes a reality. We begin to know true freedom of the spirit.”

“Alcoholics Anonymous has given me something of real value that I can share with others.”

“Forgiveness seems to depend more on the love of the one who does the forgiving than on the lovability of the one being forgiven.”

“Many ask ‘What is anonymity?’ and ‘What is humility?’ To me, they are almost the same thing. They are devoid of prestige; they demand nothing; they don’t ask to be ‘right’; they simply suggest that the icy egocentric elements in all of us retire into the background and that we wear the warm cloak of anonymity and humility and therefore, spirituality.”

“In examining the precision and aptness of the small, I can be more appreciative of the large.”

“Often in the past, my prayers for help have been answered in ways that I have not recognized as answers. Indeed, I have cursed my fate instead of thanking God.”

“As a fellowship we ask nothing of wealth or power.”

“Sober now, there was this tug at my heart, the love of one alcoholic for another.”